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Which words in the sentence are the adverb phrase? Before movable type and modern printing, careful scribes wrote each manuscript slowly.

a. careful scribes
b. wrote each
c. manuscript slowly
d. Before movable type and modern printing

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The correct answer is D, 'before movable type of modern printing'. A is a noun phrase, B is a verb phrase, as well is C. Since 'before' is an adverb, it is safe to assume this is an adverbial phrase. 
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